I want to know if there is a way or a tool who can provide me with the following info. I need to know on my Windows 2003 Server the total length of the folders within a volume.
I suspect that there are folders who oversizes the max path length. So an overview lik

I had a similar issue I had to deal with a while ago. I tried using Vb script but when the path was over 255 characters it failed. Something to do with a strings maximum size being 255 characters in VB. The worst thing was I was running this to find out files with paths longer that 255 so it was a dead end.

To get round this I modified a couple of autoIT scripts found on their forums. The end results is a script that you supply a top level folder to scan. It scans all files under the top level folder and subfolders and creates a output file whcih lists every file found and the total path length of each. I tested this with paths upto 500 characters long. It also runs very quick and allows you to filter by what ever file extension you want (use *.*) for all files.

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